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by zeteo 10y ago
> while it's not worked out for the Palestinians, it worked out OK for Israel Why do you say it hasn't worked out for the Palestinians? If it wasn't for the PLO there would be no Palestinian state [1] and the PLO became pr
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by zeteo 10y ago
This is a very interesting article because it avoids the usual pitfalls of demography-based arguments. ("Group G is underrepresented in activity A. Therefore we should completely overhaul A with policy P, which appears to be pro-G. If
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by zeteo 11y ago
Yes, I've seen the explanations in the paper but it's still confusing. 2.2) New construction should depend on population growth not population levels. In table 1, the population growth rate varies between 20% and 100% per missio
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by zeteo 11y ago
Needs for net in-situ production, by section: 1) Drinking, hygiene, "everyday living": 0.07 kg/hr/person 2.1) Regolith processing: negligible. 2.2) Manufacturing: 0.04 kg/hr/person 2.3) Perchlorate remediation:
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by zeteo 11y ago
>To create a National Fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twentyone years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling [...] And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to ever
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by zeteo 11y ago
The linked article [1] is actually far more worrying than Slate's concerns about bored 12-year-olds. If a $60 setup can do a rather precise spoof of lidar readings, we are open to scenarios such as: - Causing the car to collide with ot
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by zeteo 11y ago
> The shortsightedness of this article [...] is breathtaking. [...] Celebrating Chinese buying more SUVs, the worst automotive fashion in the last two decades? Yeah, great. Did we read the same article? There are many consequences for th
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by zeteo 11y ago
> Why is this film brilliant? I found it unbearable. Half the story is told by an omniscient narrator (a device that simply doesn't work in a film), the story advances at a glacial pace, the protagonist is completely unlikable. Of c
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by zeteo 11y ago
> For generations, factories provided good jobs to people who never went to college, allowing families [...] to be upwardly mobile [...] unions at their prime helped create a “moral economy” in which wages rose both in firms with unions
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by zeteo 11y ago
> the important thing is that he didn't build a bomb and was arrested by police officers He was arrested on suspicion of perpetrating a bomb hoax. There may be a legitimate purpose for putting an existing clock inside a box where it
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> Eyman was referring to a number of conspiracy theories that appeared on the Internet about his arrest. Most attest that the incident was a pre-planned plot [...]. Some of that skepticism stems from claims against Ahmed’s father [...] w
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Some of the sensors involved cost $8000+ a pop [1]. The immense R&D expenses will need to be recouped from the vehicle price too. Expect sky high prices and little market penetration while the patents are in effect (20+ years). [1] htt
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by zeteo 11y ago
The article is terribly condescending towards Reddit's founders and moderators. They have created and grown it to be in the top 10 of US websites. The site is still growing very strongly. Yet they're presented as an immature bunch
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by zeteo 11y ago
>What worries me is that soylent is 20% based on soy. Some studies indicate that eating a heavily soy based diet leads to increased estrogen levels Here's what they have to say about this [1]: >There are some public concerns abou
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by zeteo 11y ago
> They could do nothing about the IBM PC Except for doing what the engineering guy had proposed - selling an IBM PC compatible machine. PC clones became a huge industry in the mid '80s. The first Compaq was sold in 1982, the first D
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by zeteo 11y ago
This can be read as a story of what happens when management becomes divorced from engineering... literally. >Lore Harp and Carole Ely of Westlake Village brought along the Vector 1, a PC designed by Lore's husband, Bob Harp. >In
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by zeteo 11y ago
Spend 2-3 hours and learn the basic movement methods, this brings you at a comparable speed with a mouse-based editor. After a week of using you'll develop muscle memory and you're already faster. At least that's my experienc
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by zeteo 11y ago
VIM has a learning curve, but once you're over the hump you can do many kinds of edits much faster than using the mouse. You need to join two lines of text? It's one key press. Transpose two lines of text? Three key presses. Also
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by zeteo 11y ago
> If Obama blatantly lied about the story for political points, I'd be mad. But, basically, it seems the story happened mostly like it was told to us Story A: The CIA does brilliant investigative work. The commander-in-chief makes a
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by zeteo 11y ago
> Anyone who has critical opinion of current system should first study [... the] general equilibrium theory of credit [...] macro- and microeconomic determinants of the demand for money, Baumol–Tobin transactions demand for money, portfo
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by zeteo 12y ago
> two workers in skilled jobs, let's say they're dentists. [...] So who do you go to, when you need some work done? The one who has devoted her life to dentistry and does it every day, or the one who sort of does it on the side
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by zeteo 12y ago
> Every city was surrounded by a wall This by itself indicates warfare. City walls are huge, costly infrastructure projects that require serious justification for both construction and maintenance. For instance, in contemporary Mesopotam
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by zeteo 12y ago
> Justice must be served, and if necessary, people need to go to jail. Do you really think sending a few scapegoats to prison will solve anything? The problems are systemic. Some faces may change but the agencies remain organized and fin
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by zeteo 12y ago
I see your point about the compound noun, but is there something in between when we care more about size than color? I'm thinking of a phrase like "we all went fishing and caught little fish, except for John who caught a black-str
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by zeteo 12y ago
I doubt there's any set rule but it seems to depend on strength of association. For example it's natural to say "red big toe" because "big toe" is already a strong association. Another case where "big&quot
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> Allowing designers to pick the outcome of tunnel-like problems treats those dilemmas as if they must have a “right” answer that can be selected and applied in all similar situations [...] it becomes clear that there are certain deeply
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by zeteo 12y ago
Hmm let's play "recognize the phenomenon": 1. An important truth will cause cataclysmic consequences because it's not recognized by the general populace. 2. The deeper aspects of this truth are in the possession of an el
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Knowledge is power. Take pride in surviving the toughest position in the corporate food chain and create opportunities to move up. If you become the boss one day and roll less sh*t downhill than your predecessor, more power to you then.
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by zeteo 12y ago
Well yes, this is how corporations roll. It's nobody's fault - just human nature. But looking for a non-corporate job is not a solution for everyone, especially not for those of us who have bills to pay or personal commitments to
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by zeteo 12y ago
> I am 42-year-old very successful programmer who has been through a lot of situations [...] Early on as a programmer, I was often in situations like you describe. [...] If I could go back to my early career I would mercilessly cut out a

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